Context aware guidance for multimedia authoring: harmonizing domain and discourse knowledge

This paper presents an approach to assist authors during the authoring of multimedia presentations. We extend the existing authoring support by integrating processes of topic identification, content collection and discourse structure building in a single environment. This integration allows identification of the context of the authoring process. Our approach combines this process context awareness with explicit domain and discourse knowledge to steer system suggestions. We evaluate our approach with an experimental system prototype.     

Overcoming the luddite factor: some behavioural aspects of the field supervisor's role in construction planning

The way data is presented can seriously affect the ease with which it can be understood. The objectives and results of a survey of different types of presentation are given. Some psychological aspects of the problem are analysed.     

汉诺威-爱知县……上海——从两届世博会国家馆设计看文化展示的不同理念及思考

选择两届世博会各8个国家馆进行简要分析，指出科技发达国家与科技落后国家在理解世博主题以及展示自身文化手段上的明显区别，认为宣传先进社会意识和科技成就才是世博主题的最佳诠释。     

"The dismantling of our health system: Strategies for the survival of psychological practice": A reply to Cummings.

Comments on the original article, The dismantling of our health system: Strategies for the survival of psychological practice by Nicholas A. Cummings (see record 1986-22651-001). In response to this article, the current author says "no, no, no!" He believes that "survival with this degree of compromise amounts to doing anything for a buck." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Present it like it is here: Creating local presence to improve online product experiences

Advanced online product presentation technologies such as virtual mirrors enable consumers to experience products like they are actually present with them in the real world. This study is one of the first to address the mechanism underlying this phenomenon. Inspired by literature on media technology the concept of local presence is put forward and applied to the online consumer behavior domain. A key objective of this paper is to examine whether local presence adds to our understanding of how emerging product presentation formats influence online product experiences. To this end, a laboratory experiment (N = 366) was conducted with product presentation format as a three level (pictures, 360-spin rotation, and virtual mirror) independent variable, allowing for a comparison of the effectiveness of different presentation formats in creating perceptions of local presence. As a second objective, the influence of local presence on perceptions of product tangibility and product likability, two key facets of the online product experience, were assessed. The results, obtained with the use of analysis of variance and partial least squares modeling, show the superiority of the virtual mirror in creating local presence, and demonstrate that local presence is highly predictive of product tangibility and product likability. Theoretical and managerial implications are discussed.     

Evaluating the Impact of User Characteristics and Different Layouts on an Interactive Visualization for Decision Making

There is increasing evidence that user characteristics can have a significant impact on visualization effectiveness, suggesting that visualizations could be designed to better fit each user's specific needs. Most studies to date, however, have looked at static visualizations. Studies considering interactive visualizations have only looked at a limited number of user characteristics, and consider either low‐level tasks (e.g., value retrieval), or high‐level tasks (in particular: discovery), but not both. This paper contributes to this line of work by looking at the impact of a large set of user characteristics on user performance with interactive visualizations, for both low and high‐level tasks. We focus on interactive visualizations that support decision making, exemplified by a visualization known as Value Charts. We include in the study two versions of ValueCharts that differ in terms of layout, to ascertain whether layout mediates the impact of individual differences and could be considered as a form of personalization. Our key findings are that (i) performance with low and high‐level tasks is affected by different user characteristics, and (ii) users with low visual working memory perform better with a horizontal layout. We discuss how these findings can inform the provision of personalized support to visualization processing.     

人才培养评估中高职“实用英语”课程说课案例设计

评估型说课能直观衡量教师对高职教育理念的理解以及教学实施的能力,能反映学校总体的教学理念、课程建设与创新成果。需要说课者在较短的时间内做到事理结合,特色创新。通过一个具体的课程案例设计,详细阐述了评估型说课的内容、重点和策略。     

Presentation 在高职公共英语教学中的应用——基于修辞学“同一” 理论视角的探讨

Presentation在高职公共英语教学中起着重要作用。尝试从"同一"理论这一全新的修辞学视角来探讨高职学生的Presentation,发现"同一"理论在Presentation的准备阶段、陈述阶段与反馈阶段都具有极大的指导与启迪意义。     

To watch from distance: an interactive film model based on Brechtian film theory

With the emergence of new media, interactive film projects have mainly struggled to resolve the contradiction between dramatic structures and interaction. Dramatic film presents identification with the main character, where the viewer is constantly oppressed by the narrative, and therefore lost in illusion. In this context, when we bring on the scene interaction, the drama apparently starts to lose its power.

In this article, a new interactive film model based on Brechtian film theory is proposed. This model presents a new way of spatiotemporal construction where different audiovisual combinations can be viewed successively, and this way the viewer can actively construct his/her own story. Theoretical framework of the Brechtian interactive film model is supported by an interactive film application, named Academia. The main feature of the model is that, while interaction is very simple, the continuity of the narrative is preserved and the film requiring an intellectual level of interpretation.     

Web信息抽取及知识表示系统的研究与实现

研究了从数据密集型Web页面中自动提取结构化数据并形成知识表示系统的问题。基于知识数据库实现动态页面获取,进行预处理后转换为XML文档,采用基于PAT-array的模式发现算法自动发现重复模式,结合基于本体的关键词库自动识别页面数据显示结构模型,利用XML的对象-关系映射技术将数据存入知识数据库,由此实现Web数据自动抽取。同时,利用知识数据库已有知识从互联网抽取新知识,达到知识数据库的自扩展。以交通信息自动抽取及混合交通出行方案生成与表示系统进行的实验表明该系统具有高抽取准确率和良好的适应性。